The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-08-13
MICHIGAN.
Condensed Rcports on tho Latest News
from all Parts OF the State.


mill at Chippewa Lake.
Chippewa Lake is endeaycrirg TO
rsanize G.. A. II. post.
The Barry county oat crop is be-
Ing devastated by grasshoppers.
The lakes around Sturgis are being
examined by the state fish commission.
Sewer improvements costing $751;
600 are TO be made in Saginaw city
this year
Flushing has raised the required
$4,000 for the Toledo, Saginaw and
Mackinac railroad.
The grape crop Of - Joseph county
promises 10 be the largest that has
been known for many years.
Caroline, widow of the late Ira NJ.
Weed. the first pastor of the Presby-
terrain Church in Ypsilanti, died after
a lingering illness, aged 1S.
Henry Bisbee, the 7-year-old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. III. II. Bisbee, of Lud-
ington, Mich, was drowned in White
lake while playing in the water.
The board Of control Of swamp
lands have appropriated the last acre.
The last Legislature appropriated
nearly 10000, while the state pos
sessed only 1000 acres.
Prominent Flint men are organic
ing stock company for the purpose
of building "a large hotel at Long Lake.
The name OF the company Is the Long
Lake Summer Resort company.
AT Marquette, H. Rose attempted
10 rape Swede servant girl named
Sophia Anderson, at Baraga. He
was detected in the act by those who
heard the girls cries, but escaped.
Charles and Scott haywood met
with serious accident at Caro-, while
they were practicing she use of a patent
flatiron. The gasoline heater exploded,
burning the boys terribly about the
face and hands.
1t will probably be several days yet
before the boring of the Pontiac ex-
perimental well will be commenced. IL
will take time TO build the eighty foot
derrick, and get the boilers and ma
chinery in position.
Some of Romeo's enterprising
citizens are endeavoring to organize
stock company for the manufacture of
carriages, buggies, etc. Shares are
going rapidly at 800 each. Fifty
thousand dollars is the capital required.
The state Geologist while on
trip TO the Kalamazoo natural gas well,
pronounces its prospects promising.
Quite unexpectedly the gas bearing
rock has been found 500 feet nearer the
surface than in the Grand Rapids well.
"A large brick and frame building
(vacant), formerly occupied as a hoe
factory. at Marshall, was destroyed by
fire charged TO incendiary. The build
ing had been slipped of machinery and
had been vacant for number Of
years.
John Ryan. Of Houghton, con-
nected with a prominent copper country
family, committed suicide. He was in
poor health. He went out into the
woods near Isle Royale mine at
Houghton and hanged himself. He
leaves wife.
In some parts Of Van Buren, coun-
" the pastures are all dried up, afford
ing no sustenance for stock, and
many farmers are cutting up their
corn and feeding IL 10 their mich
COWS. Without rain at once the out
look is anything but encouraging.
e Colonzo, Of Humboldt, was
fined $50 for taking brook trout less
than six inches in length; Joseph
Germane, Of Palmer, $50 for shooting
deer out Of season, and Joe Charbon-
nau $50 for killing fawn on Saturday.
J, Ebar paid $50 for shooting deer out
OF season.
AS the passenger train on the
Lansing Railroad was entering Lake
view. IL struck and completely demol-
ishing wagon, instantly killing Hat
tie Shaver, of I.akeview, and Hattie
Reynolds, Of Terre Haute, Ind. also
iniuring Fannie Shaver and Chas.
Whitbeck, and slightly hurting boy,
name unknown, all who were riding in
the wagon.
The preliminary trial of Sergt.
Clark, OF the 23d regiment United
States infantry, for the shooting Of
Private Albert Stone, resulted In his
discharge. the court holding that he
must obey any legal order Of his SUI
perior officers. stone, who had been
sentenced TO military prison for con-
duct derogatory 10 military discipline,
tried TO escape, and Clark, who was on
guard, shot him.